Conference – 2003
Asset Prices and Monetary Policy

A range of prominent academic, central-bank and other policy economists participated
in the 2003 conference. Two papers for the conference were written by Bank
economists: David Gruen (currently on secondment to the Australian Treasury),
Michael Plumb and Andrew Stone co-authored one of these papers, while the other
was prepared by John Simon. The five other papers were written by well-known
international economists: Charles Bean from the Bank of England; Stephen Cecchetti
from Brandeis University; Barry Eichengreen from University of California,
Berkeley; Karl Case from Wellesley College; and Adam Posen from the Institute
for International Economics. Discussants included economists and academics
from Australia, the Bank for International Settlements and the United States,
and the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.